A full and authentic report of the testimony on the trial of Matt. F. Ward [electronic resource] : certified to be correct by Thomas D. Brown, clerk of Hardin Circuit Court; Wm. Alexander, former commonwealth attorney for the Hardin district; and Judge Alex. Walker, of New Orleans ; with the speeches of Gov. Crittenden, Gov. Helm, T.F. Marshall, and Nathaniel Wolfe, and the reply of Alfred Allen, esq., attorney for the commonwealth / reported by A. D. Richardson.

Trial held in Hardin Circuit Court at Elizabethtown, Ky., April, 1854, for the murder of W.H.G. Butler. Matthew F. Ward was acquitted, and the case against Robert J. Ward was dropped.